Perfection

Luke 2:46  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 6
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“And it came to pass, that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.” Luke 2:4646And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. (Luke 2:46).
Is there not a fitness in its not being said of the Lord here that He was either teaching or learning; though it is said that He was hearing and asking questions? It seems to me that there is. To have taught would not have been in season, a child as He was in the midst of His elders. To have learned, would not have been in full fidelity to the light, the eminent and brighter light which He knew He carried in Himself; for He was wiser than His teachers, and had more understanding than the ancients (Psa. 119:99-10099I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. 100I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. (Psalm 119:99‑100)) we may surely say of Him; I mean not as God, but as One “filled with wisdom,” as it is said of Him. For of this child, in the temple with the doctors, we read that He was “strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.” So that He knew how in perfection of grace to use the fullness of wisdom that was in Him; and He is therefore not presented to us as either teaching or learning.